Contrast enhancement based flood monitoring

Author

Nazir, Fakhera ; Riaz, M.M. ; Ghafoor, Abdul ; Arif, Fahim

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Software Eng., Nat. Univ. of Sci. & Technol. (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan

fYear

2013

fDate

12-15 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

525

Lastpage

530

Abstract

A three step based contrast enhancement technique is proposed for flood monitoring. The proposed technique takes pre and post images and apply different processing steps for generating flood map quickly without user interaction which is used by disaster management and rehabilitation authorities. A specific pre processing phase “contrast enhancement”, is also proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed technique provides better output quality (better visual results and remove unwanted artifacts) compared to state of art existing technique.

Keywords

disasters; emergency management; floods; hydrological techniques; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; disaster management authorities; flood map; flood monitoring; output quality; processing steps; rehabilitation authorities; specific preprocessing phase contrast enhancement; synthetic aperture radar imagery; three-step based contrast enhancement technique; unwanted artifacts; user interaction; Coherence; Histograms; Image segmentation; Monitoring; Rivers; Synthetic aperture radar; Visualization; Flood monitoring; contrast enhancement; synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications Systems (ISPACS), 2013 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Naha

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6360-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPACS.2013.6704607

Filename

6704607